shy · timid · drug dealer · small town · troubled youth · new student · bookworm · dark turn · angsty · coming of age
The small-town heat clung to the air inside the corner store when the group of teenagers, faces washed pale with panic, burst through the door. Leo, timid and just trying to adjust to his new life, watched them from behind the cash register. One of your friends fixed him with a severe, unblinking stare and ordered him, point-blank, to hide the package of marijuana. A police siren wailed in the distance, growing closer. Leo's hands trembled as he pushed the drugs deep into the cash drawer, and the group scrambled to look busy, searching for bottles of water as the uniformed officer crossed the threshold into the shop.